Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Shapes of Wrath | 2023 | Melissa Yi | Buy |
Hope’s Seven Deadly Sins is a spinoff of the Hope Sze series. The Shapes of Wrath (2023) is the first entry, themed around one of the seven deadly sins.
The Shapes of Wrath takes “wrath” as its organizing sin, building a medical mystery around that theme. Melissa Yi (also published as Melissa Yuan-Innes) created the Hope Sze character in her long-running medical mystery series, where Dr. Hope Sze works as an emergency room physician who keeps stumbling into criminal cases. This spinoff applies a new structural idea to that familiar character.
The seven deadly sins concept gives the spinoff a built-in framework for future books. If each sin gets its own entry, the series could run to seven titles. As of 2023, The Shapes of Wrath is the only published entry. Readers new to Hope Sze can start here, though the main series provides more backstory on the character.